michaelkeenan comments on Open thread, 21-27 April 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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According to Moral Foundations Theory, fairness is one of the innate moral instincts.
According to Scott Adams, fairness was invented so children and idiots can participate in arguments.
I think we have a fairness instinct mostly so we can tell clever stories about why our desire for more stuff is more noble than greed.